0 the ability to walk easily on rough ground without falling:
1 confidence and an ability to make good judgments in a difficult situation:
Mark ascended first, running up the steps with the surefootedness of a goat.
This shattered the animals' reputation for surefootedness, which had been trumpeted, two years before.
Everything in the film was done with absolute conviction and surefootedness.
And once he loses his surefootedness, the media will turn on him like sharks.
Foreign firms, too, are feeling their way, with surprising surefootedness.
Down this they plunged with surefootedness was a marvel.
Down this they plunged with reckless speed; their surefootedness was a marvel in such seemingly unwieldy beasts.
The animal seemed tired, and yet the safety of all depended on his strength and surefootedness.
